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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2023
Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sara Dever, Boothwyn, PA (US);
Jennifer L Holloway, Wallingford, PA (US);
Daniel P. Rowan, Springfield, PA (US);
Mark D. Thompson, Havertown, PA (US);
Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for selecting one or more network-connected devices to provide device functions required by an event. A media guidance application may detect an event in which a user is currently engaged. The media guidance application may identify a set of device capabilities associated with the event. The media guidance application may search, within a plurality of network-connected devices of the user, to identify one or more devices that enable functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities to be perceptible to the user, and the media guidance application may instruct the identified one or more devices to provide the functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities associated with the event.